KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Indiana Wesleyan claimed the top spot in the latest NAIA Men’s Cross Country Top 25. The Wildcats grabbed 18 first-place votes. The Master’s (Calif.) and Milligan (Tenn.) remained at Nos. 2 and 3 respectively, each grabbing first place votes of their own. Saint Mary (Kan.) and Eastern Oregon also stayed put to round-out the top five. Doane (Neb.) was the lone newcomer of the week while Kansas Wesleyan’s two-spot rise was the largest.

Rating Methodology:

• The Top 25 was voted upon by a panel of head coaches representing each of the conferences, and Unaffiliated Groupings.
• The Top 25 is determined by a points system based on how each voter ranks the best teams. A team receives 30 points for each first-place vote, 29 for second-place and so on through the list.
• The highest and lowest ranking for each team (a non-rating is considered a low ratings) is removed and the team’s ranking will be recalculated with an additional point added to each team for every ballot (including discounted ballots) that the teams appears on.
• Teams that receive only one point in the ballot are not considered “receiving votes”
• For the complete Top 25 calendar, click HERE.

Dropped from Top 25: Huntington (Ind.)

Others Receiving Votes: Huntington (Ind.) 106, Rocky Mountain (Mont.) 78, Lewis-Clark State (Idaho) 63, UC Merced (Calif.) 53, Texas Wesleyan 36, Marian (Ind.) 21, Indiana East 16, Cornerstone (Mich.) 13, Benedictine (Kan.) 12, William Penn (Iowa) 7, Oregon Tech 3.